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631.50 ALIEN INMATES OR MENTALLY ILL PERSONS; REQUIRING NOTICE TO
UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION OFFICERS.
When a person who is convicted of a felony or is found to be a person who is mentally
ill is committed to the Minnesota Correctional Facility-Stillwater, the Minnesota Correctional
Facility-St. Cloud, the county jail, or any other state or county institution which is supported,
wholly or in part, by public funds, the chief executive officer, sheriff, or other officer in charge of
the state or county institution shall at once inquire into the nationality of the person. If it appears
that the person is an alien, the officer shall immediately notify the United States immigration
officer in charge of the district in which the correctional facility, jail, or other institution is located,
of (1) the date of and the reasons for the alien commitment, (2) the length of time for which
committed, (3) the country of which the alien is a citizen, and (4) the date on which and the port at
which the alien last entered the United States.
History: (9950-1) 1927 c 301 s 1; 1976 c 2 s 155; 1979 c 102 s 13; 1985 c 265 art 11
s 1; 2002 c 221 s 49

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